Natural casings (animal intestines) were stuffed with ground meat, fat, and flavor agents, then left on when the finished product was sliced. “Cupping pepperoni? Buffalo-style? Doesn’t that mean hot sauce? Battistoni?”Ĭupping Pepperoni - For the uninitiated, as The Wall Street Journal laid out, cupping pepperoni is pepperoni as it was first invented. “Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,” you’re saying. “And apparently, Battistoni Meats does too as evidenced by their website.” “I absolutely think it should be called ‘Buffalo-style pepperoni,’” he told The Sauce. But should this rapidly proliferating style of pizza actually be called “ Buffalo-style”?Īsk one of the some 260,000 pizza-loving citizens of the Nickel City, and they’ll likely say, ‘Yes.’ Or just ask Buffalo’s foremost pizza expert, anonymous pizza reviewer Sexy Slices who was recently profiled by The Buffalo News. They even recently got their own profile in an article in The Wall Street Journal. They’ve become famous over the past seven years perhaps most due to their use at Prince Street Pizza in New York City coinciding with the rise of Instagram. If you’re a pizza geek (isn’t everyone?) you likely know all about cupping pepperoni, aka cup-and-char pepperoni, or ‘roni cups as their friends like to call them (wink), the curled-up-at-the-edges Instagram darlings that can be found piling up on slices, often squares, at social media savvy pizzerias across America.

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